Brothers Grimm, Farris and Dan Wilks, billionaires who have enriched
themselves from fracking in West Texas, made a “record-setting” $15 million contribution to the pro-Ted Cruz Super PAC Keep The Promise. This is the largest-known donation by any
individuals in the 2016 race so far.
It should be no surprise that in 2014, Cruz introduced the so-called
American Energy Renaissance Act, which among other things curtailed the federal
government's power to regulate fracking altogether while opening up more land
and offshore territory to dirty energy exploration. He called the fracking boom
a “providential blessing.” Cruz also praised Pennsylvania for its embrace of
fracking in the Marcellus shale, and condemned New York for its cautiousness on
the process.
The root of all this, the fracking, the politics, the
manipulation, the power, it all stems from our system of market/monetary
economics. You need to look past all of this. The effects of money are very
real. War, poverty, politics, crime, abhorrent behavior, mental and physical illness
and the waste of a planetary resources. Ted Cruz wouldn't exist in a world
without money. Nor Bernie Sanders.
A real economy would be concerned with the well-being of all
the world’s people. With the well-being of the planet we live on. The only one
we live on. We need to eliminate the market/monetary system. Or our children,
and if they are lucky, their children will see a repeat of the same old story,
time and again. Just as we have all seen all our lives. One against the other. Self
interest, differential advantage, social stratification, and scarcity does not
generate a healthy society as the collapse of all such societies through out
recorded history shows.
The monetary/market/scarcity/slavery paradigm is not the
only socioeconomic system we can operate under. We do have the technology to
change the world. We can create access abundance in accordance with natural
laws that is sustainable and provides a high standard of living for all people.
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